Top 100 Only Live Once Quotes
#1. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.
Albert Camus
#2. We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
Dwight Longenecker
#3. "You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something
Aaron Karo
#4. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#5. You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.
Mitch Lucker
#6. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.
Sharon Guskin
#7. You live only once, so enjoy the life at its best and live it to the fullest.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.
Ideaswar
#10. You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'
Rosario Dawson
#11. I wouldn't trade growing up on the farm in Yolo (you only live once) County for anything in the world. I prefer the world I grew up in, and not the world I am growing old in.
Lorraine Rominger
#12. What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.
Lorene Scafaria
#13. Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.
ASAP Rocky
#14. Live an adventurous life. Every adventure freshens your life anew, and you do not get bored. An adventurous person dies only once, but a coward dies thousands of times.
His Holiness Divas
#15. If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.
Julian Assange
#16. Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.
John Hughes
#17. A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer
#18. During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.
Lindsay Lohan
#19. If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.
Gina Greenlee
#20. I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.
Heidi Klum
#21. What, indeed, had I done in all my thirty years of conscious life? Not only had I failed to live my life for the sake of all, but I had not even lived it for myself. I had lived as a parasite, and once I asked myself why I had lived, the answer I received was: for nothing.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. You only live once, and I just don't want to waste a minute of my life.
Richard Branson
#23. You only live once. But if you live your life right, once can mean everything!
Lorii Myers
#24. You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.
Joshua Bell
#25. In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
Robert James Waller
#26. ENJOY Your Life...You Only Get to Live It ONCE!
Timothy Pina
#27. No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
Tony Judt
#28. You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
Bell Hooks
#30. I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.
Zara Phillips
#31. Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard Brautigan
#32. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.
Julian Assange
#33. I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.
Stephen Hawking
#34. You only need to breathe mindfully and smile to your habit energy: "Oh, I got pulled away by that again." When you can recognize habit energies this way, they lose their hold on you, and you're free once again to live peacefully and happily in the present.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.
Peter T. King
#37. You only live once. If you don't enjoy it, it's your fault, nobody else's
Duncan Bannatyne
#38. Being comfortable is nice, but there is a price to pay. We only get to live this life once, so why not make it count?
Andrew Griffiths
#39. Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
Sarah Kane
#40. Life is given to me only once, and never will be again - I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#41. No such thing as time travel, he'd rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you've done, and try in the future to do what you're happy to live with.
Richard K. Morgan
#42. You only live once, and if something feels right to you and you want it, you should go after it.
Miranda Kenneally
#43. Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!
Thomas Berry
#44. A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together
Chuck Jones
#45. Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful so eat the damn red velvet cupcake!
Emma Stone
#47. We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.
Michael Jackson
#48. You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever.
Abby Morel
#49. His philosophy of life had been that we only live once.
Now there had matured in him the sense of another truth about himself and the world: that we have only one conscience - and that a crippled conscience is as irretrievable as a lost life.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#50. We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair
#51. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.
Louise Hay
#52. The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
Honore De Balzac
#53. For those of you that use YOLO to justify sin: YOLO, you only live once, but then you burn in hell forever.
Nouman Ali Khan
#54. Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.
Husam Wafaei
#56. We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special
Pablo
#57. Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!
Kate Mara
#59. It was bold, but I have always been a "you only live once, so let your love show and takes risks" kind of person.
Drew Barrymore
#60. Mae West: "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." Wish I could believe her.
So many possibilities in life and so little time!
Judith Somborac
#61. IF YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE FULLY, YOU WILL ONLY DIE ONCE. BUT IF YOU ARE SCARED, FEAR WILL KILL YOU DAY AFTER DAY.
Paulo Coelho
#62. You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.
Chris Paul
#63. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
#64. People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again - but it finds a tougher surface.
Willa Cather
#65. That we could be like normal people and live happily ever after. That a love like ours, while brief and intense, would really come only once in a lifetime.
Yolanda Olson
#66. You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.
Bindi Irwin
#68. If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
Sydney J. Harris
#69. Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
S. Jay Olshansky
#70. You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
Fred Allen
#71. Live free, dream loud, be inspired, find your power.
Ben Herr
#72. You only live once, so off with them pants. Hell ain't for sure, it's only a chance.
Mojo Nixon
#73. You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
James Frey
#74. A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can't cure it - you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn't much hope.
Rachel Reiland
#75. I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.
Joy Cowley
#76. Well, then why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once, if it's the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it's new every time. Each time is a different experience.
Jane Margolis
#77. You only live once so make sure you spend every minute of it with the right people.
Rajesh Pillai
#78. I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
Kate Hudson
#79. You take what you can get and hold on tight to it- by any means necessary. After all you only live once.
Oliver Bowden
#80. Quoting some advice from Terry Orlick:
You can only live this day once, this opportunity now. Once it is gone, it is gone. Embrace the opportunity.
Clara Hughes
#81. You may never get back this life, so do something in this lifetime worthy of celebration.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Live by your own rules. Dont let anybody hold you back. Be different and be yourself. You only get to live once, so make it whatever you want it to be.
A.T. Veatch
#83. Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
#84. Anyone who doesn't want you to be happy with who you are is an asshole. Fuck pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for?
Dahlia Adler
#85. You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable
you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.
Jack LaLanne
#86. I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine lives the life that Hunter Thompson only writes about.'
David Carradine
#87. You Only Live Once ! ;) - CR !
Drake
#88. you only live once ... if you're lucky.
Mike Bozart
#89. I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
P. J. O'Rourke
#91. My philosophy in life is that you only live once. Live life to its fullest.
Richard Branson
#92. You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second devine.
Mitch Lucker
#93. Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
Darren Shan
#94. Somebody once asked me if I made a lot of money, I said I made enough. He then asked why do it, if I'm only making enough. And I said I don't do what I do to be rich in my wallet, I do what I do to be rich in life.
Lisa Abu-Bakr
#95. Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
Milan Kundera
#96. You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.
Jordan Knight
#97. But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#98. YOLO = you only live once - *warning not to be over used*
Drake
#99. You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
Ian Fleming
#100. You only live once, so live a good life!
Shane Filan